
Tiddle-a-Taddle-a-Do-Da-De-Da-Do-Do ( Helen Kane).

Diddle-a-Do-Ba-Do-De-Do-Da ( Helen Kane).Baddle-a-Daddle-a-Daddle-a-Daddle-a-Do-Da ( Helen Kane).Doo-Doo-Doo-Doo-Doo ( Josephine Baker).Do-Do-De-Do-Ho-De-Wa-Da-De-Da ( Baby Esther Jones).Twa-Twa-Twe-Twa-Twe-Twa-Twa-Twa ( Esther Bigeou).Doop-Deet-Doot-Da-Doot ( Esther Bigeou).Sha-Da-Deda-Boo-Boo-Pa-Doo ( Clarence Williams).Tha-Ma-Boum-Di-He ( Letitia Lulu Agatha “Mama Lou” Fontaine).

Boop-De-Dooden-Do ( African-American old-time hymns).It is said that Gertrude Saunders during the early 1920s inspired many “female” Jazz singers to want to copy her and she paved the way, indicating that she was the first “female” to make this popular as of 1921 in the hit musical Shuffle Along, however scatting was quite common. This is to show the predecessors and how common scat singing in songs was. This timeline of “scat-singers” here is up until Betty Boop’s “official” debut in 1932. However she certainly popularized the “Boop-Boop-a-Doop” genre. When she sued she had no proof to back her claims. The main fact was that Kane had no proof to back her claims as being “sole innovator” of her “scatting technique” and did not “patent” it. When singer Helen Kane sued the Fleischer Studios and Paramount Pictures for stealing her “ Boop-Boop-a-Doop,” she lost because not only was her “baby-talk” vocals not original, but the “scatting” in songs was also quite common and her “Boop” and “Doop” that she proclaimed to be creator of had already been used by a galaxy of performers.

“Vo-Do-Do-Deo,” “Vo-Dee-O-Dodo,” Vo-Do-Do-De-O,” and “Oh-Vo-De-Oh-Do” are a few examples. Scatting is basically inserting “nonsense” and or “gibberish” into songs. The predecessors of the “ Boop-Oop-a-Doop” routine used by Betty Boop had already been established by other singers making the technique quite common and unoriginal.Īccording to the Fleischer Studios, Betty Boop‘s “ Boop-Oop-a-Doop” routine had evolved from “ Bo-Do-De-O-Do,” “ Ba-Da-In-De-Do” scat rhymes. Scatting is scat-singing is a vocal “jazz” of wordless sounds rhythmically used in unison.
